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ORV Star Wars AU

There was this planet, Crucival, located in the Tion Hegemony, in the Outer Rim Territories. It was a terrestrial planet, vastly covered in yellow grass and towering mountains. This world was almost constantly wrecked by wars between various factions.

Kim Dokja is a simple merchant, living an honest life (i.e. he’s a smuggler) who’s trying to sell his merchandise on flea markets — with varying degrees of effectiveness. He’s not a Jedi nor has any connection with the Force, fortunately! That would be bothersome.

He is living alone, his mother arrested and imprisoned for stealing food when he was little. It’s hard. Day by day he scrambles for scraps, his existence barely called a living, since his young years having to get by himself, contact with his mother long lost. He doesn’t know what is currently happening with her. He had to tend for himself, trying to sell self-made devices, made from junk and whatnots.

There is a global net available, an internet of some sort, so in the rare free moments he can be seen reading new articles and relations from different types of battlefields.

His favourite person writing about what’s happening is called [tls123], and they’re relaying their facts as if it was a full ass story, novel even. Even though what they describe are real events, where people are dying, that is the reality; people die every day — it’s enough to look wrongly at someone stronger than you and you could be beaten to death in minutes. Why not make life more entertaining, then? [tls123] was on a battle front in a galaxy far away from Crucival, where light and dark sides of Force have been clashing with each other since forever. It was difficult to tell on which side [tls123] was, as their way of telling the story seemed quite impartial.

Enter Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyoung, Jedi knights who fight with the injustice and evil of the world. There are other knights, Jung Heewon and Lee Hyunsung among them, and young padawans — Lee Gilyoung, Shin Yoosung, Yoo Mia and Lee Jihye at the Jedi temple.

Yoo Joonghyuk bumps into Kim Dokja in an accident; during their respective journeys, when Kim Dokja tries to palm off his products to some rich people and Yoo Joonghyuk’s on a mission to investigate something, very predictably they get tangled up in a misunderstanding.

When Kim Dokja is in the middle of negotiations, he insults a very important representative. It wasn’t intentional, naturally, but he gets pushed and bumps into Yoo Joonghyuk, who in his grumpy way tries to resolve the conflict.

There’re a lot of guards and, in order to avoid bloodshed, Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk easily get overpowered, which ends in both of them getting imprisoned together. Yoo Joonghyuk doesn’t want to waste time, he’s in the middle of a mission after all, so he almost immediately reaches for his lightsaber, but then—

“Don’t worry, Mr. Jedi, I got it.” Kim Dokja with his calculative mind and shit eating grin tries to sweet talk the guards, just for them to fully shut Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk out.

“Well, that certainly didn’t go as well as I expected… Hmm, but they won’t be keeping us here forever. Also, I’m sure somebody’s gonna look for us soon.” Kim Dokja rattles away, filling out the silence that began to occupy their cell. Being the recipient of Kim Dokja’s rant, even without inputting anything on his own, Yoo Joonghyuk knows that the next hours are going to be tiring.

His former Jedi master, Namgung Minyoung, used to say that sometimes it’s better to go with the flow of events and to see what happens. Yoo Joonghyuk’s not planning on staying here with this irritating fellow for god knows how long, however.

Using his lightsaber he cuts a hole in the prison’s wall and begins to walk out, just to hear a short “I knew you weren’t going to sit still like you were told to.” After that comes darkness, when he’s hit by something hard on the back of his head.

Kim Dokja has a chance to only chuckle nervously when he’s met with a similar blow.

They’re transported to a different cell, on a spaceship orbiting near the planet, which shortly after takes off.

They do manage to escape, leaving behind a destroyed space station, and taking with them few other people they met there and cooperated with; their escape was dramatic, not short of deaths just waiting at every corner, and few pompous officers who thought themselves gods above mere people.

That’s how Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk got acquainted. Since Kim Dokja read about Yoo Joongyuk’s fights in the ongoing war, and being away from home himself, he decides to trail after the Jedi master. Be it to some negligible planets or to finish off some evil bastards — many a time he is left behind by Yoo Joonghyuk who doesn’t really want an audience and a nuisance at his side, yet Kim Dokja always comes back, appearing at the least expected moment during Yoo Joonghyuk’s missions.

He wears off on Yoo Jonghyuk, who at some point stops trying to get rid of Kim Dokja and simply lets him stay at his side (or skulking around somewhere, but always nearby). Kim Dokja gets to use a blaster, after Yoo Jonghyuk gets stuck in a fight with a defenceless squid beside him. They grow more accustomed to the other one around, and that’s when Yoo Joonghyuk notices a few important tendencies of Kim Dokja:

The idiot doesn’t really value his life, risking it unnecessarily, very often coming close to being killed. There are situations where he’s annoying someone who shouldn’t be annoyed and he almost dies at the other’s wrath. He gets abducted and terribly beaten up; he's barely alive.

Against himself Yoo Joonghyuk gets anxious because of that and starts to worry about Kim Dokja. Also, as a Jedi he’s aware that fear is an easy way to the dark side so he tries to fight those feelings, for them to not overwhelm him and make him do things he normally wouldn’t.

He starts to meditate, but it quickly turns into looking for Kim Dokja mentally, using the Force. It happens whenever the rat bastard goes off the radar or disappears off to somewhere, unsure to come back. It’s deteriorating for the Jedi, pulling him more and more to the dark side — although not without Yoo Joonghyuk putting up resistance.

At some point Kim Dokja starts to feel it too, the disturbances in the Force around him, which is something he couldn’t do before. It happens once, then twice, and after a few occurrences he gets used to being able to feel the Force around him. It is extremely unusual and Kim Dokja doesn’t know what to make of it. How powerful Yoo Joonghyuk was to make him sensitive to the Force?

At the same time Yoo Joonghyuk skims closer and closer to the dark side because of the fear about his companion.

They start to see each other in visions, which scares Yoo Joonghyuk. What has he done? What is happening? Why is suddenly Kim Dokja able to feel the Force?

They share their dreams, and with constant shifting of the energies around Kim Dokja finds himself being able to manipulate the Force himself. Not much, mind you; just enough to throw paper balls at Yoo Joongyuk’s forehead when he was frowning too much.

Surprisingly Yoo Joonghyuk doesn’t notice those little ministrations. Kim Dokja is only too happy to mess with the Jedi for a bit.

Then comes one time when they’re ambushed and Yoo Jonghyuk is handicapped, unable to use his lightsaber nor his power. In the last possible moment Kim Dokja reaches for the lightsaber that was thrown out of their reach. It comes flying to his hand and he stabs at their attackers, successfully startling them for a moment, giving Yoo Joonghyuk time to retaliate.

It is then that he finds out about Kim Dokja’s abilities; he’s stumped.

Of course, with Kim Dokja’s nature, the annoying rat immediately starts to tease Yoo Joonghyuk. It is then that they kiss for the first time; Yoo Joonghyuk finally finding a way to shut Kim Dokja up.

As the story goes, at some point Han Sooyoung reaches out to Yoo Joonghyuk to let him know that the Jedi temple has been attacked and his sister kidnapped among other young padawans, their fate unknown.

Yoo Joonghyuk is thrown into a frenzy of searching for his sister, his Jedi commitments and missions suddenly insignificant. Kim Dokja is almost left behind, as if they went back to their early days, only by force staying close to Yoo Jonghyuk and keeping him by his side.

The Jedi master will do anything to save his sister. When Kim Dokja notices the unhealthy patterns in his companion’s behaviour, he gets really worried. He starts to leave on his own, trying to find a way to save both Yoo Joonghyuk and his sister. Yoo Joonghyuk is left on his own more and more often. It does nothing good.

Inexorably, Yoo Joonghyuk turns to the dark side — because there is no other way to keep his people alive and well, he’s also constantly trying to find Yoo Mia.

Kim Dokja knows very well the moment he lost Yoo Joonghyuk to the Dark. He was always teasing and prodding, annoying his companion yet never with malice; he was never looked at with clear, honest hate, as well.

This current Yoo Joonghyuk, who went away to look for his sister and found her in the end, came back different. When they meet again his eyes are full of resentment and betrayal; Kim Dokja would prefer plain indifference to this treatment, yet at the moment he was the one who stood besides the group of Jedi who were threatening Yoo Joonghyuk to hand the children over back to them.

How was he supposed to know that Yoo Joonghyuk had to acknowledge a Dark master in order to find and free the padawans? The evil was being trickled into his ears, poisoning his train of thoughts and memories of those close to him.

Kim Dokja was afraid Yoo Joonghyuk was lost to them.

The young padawans are returned more or less in one piece to the temple, but without Yoo Mia. Yoo Joonghyuk takes her with him, and no one knows where.

As it was always said, the balance needs to be kept. Like the Dark acquired a new student, Kim Dokja is being taken into the Jedi temple for training by Jung Heewon. He often wonders then if the powers he received were the Light part of Yoo Joonghyuk, leaving him only with the Dark within him, which slowly devoured him.

He makes it his mission to bring Yoo Joonghyuk back. Not even to make him Light again, he’s not an altruist really, even while he’s trained in the Jedi ways. He only wants his companion back, alive.

He looks for him, dragging Han Sooyoung along — who, as he found out, was [tls123]. They bicker constantly during their travels, fights, and while pouring over the text which Han Sooyoung still wrote and posted. He knows that Yoo Joonhyuk is keeping tabs on their position as they trail after him; the things Han Sooyoung mentions are specific to particular places and events. Yet he feels they’re getting closer, in spite of Yoo Joonghyuk going above and beyond to lose them.

Kim Dokja knows it is only a matter of time before he’ll face Yoo Joonghyuk again; he doesn’t know yet how he will bring him back, the bastard was much stronger than him even before he changed sides. The low chances of success don’t throw him off the course, however. He was facing low odds all his life, and overcame them every time. He was still here, after all.

He will see this through to the end, as well.

Damn this is an old thing... cross-posted from twitter and cleaned up. Also posted on AO3 here.

#orv #orv au #omniscient reader's viewpoint #dokjoong #joongdok #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #han sooyoung #orv fic #orv star wars au

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